Don't hold your breath for a U.S. exchange-tradedfundthat invests in Bitcoin. Prospects for such a fund took anosediveon Wednesday when the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected requests to list nine cryptocurrency funds, citing continuing concerns about manipulation and market surveillance. Bloomberg's Rachel Evans has more on (BTC)

New York (AP) -- Media outlets are reporting that federal prosecutors have granted immunity to the executive in charge of the National Enquirer amid an investigation into hush-money payments made on behalf of President Donald Trump. (HUSH)

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rejected another round of attempts to list exchange-traded funds backed by Bitcoin, blocking ETFs from ProShares, GraniteShares and Direxion on concern prices could be vulnerable to manipulation. (BTC)

President Donald Trump denied using campaign funds to pay hush money to women who alleged they had past affairs with him, saying in an interview with Fox News that he only learned of the payments (HUSH)

In Amsterdam's historic center where office space is scarce, employees at fintech company Ohpen enjoy playing pool in a spacious canteen and personal training sessions in an Olympic boxing ring in the basement gym.

It might seem like Bitcoin's ties to broader financial markets are strengthening as other risky assets also sell off, but cryptocurrencies are still dancing to their own tune -- even if the song is starting to sound like a requiem. (BTC)

Bitcoin recovered from the lowest level since June and scores of smaller digital tokens rallied as concern eased that investors are giving up on the virtual alternatives to cash after this year's collapse in prices. (BTC)

Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world's biggest producer of cryptocurrency mining chips, is planning a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise as much as $3 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Coinbase Inc., one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is signing up 50,000 new customers a day even amid a virtual-coin price slump, Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said at the Bloomberg Players Technology Summit in San Francisco.

The tea-leaves may be turning again for Bitcoin. Chart patterns and measures of momentum are hinting at support just as the latest swoon by the largest cryptocurrency heightens apprehension among speculators and true-believers. (BTC)

It turns out that gambling, not buying digital kittens, is one of the most popular applications on the blockchain -- the distributed ledger technology that has been touted as the solution for everything from world hunger to money transfers.

Cryptocurrency technical analysts have been warning against buying on the dip after the sell-off that shaved $600 billion from the value of digital coins since January. Bitcoin fell on Thursday, suggesting traders are listening. (BTC)

Cryptocurrencies slumped Wednesday, with Bitcoin tumbling below $6,500 for the first time since July, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission postponed a decision on whether to allow the listing of an exchange-traded fund backed by the largest digital currency. (BTC)

Last year, Bitcoin led a motley pack of so-called cryptocurrencies in one of the great booms in market history, soaring over 2,000 percent to its peak. Since then, it's led an epic bust that rivals the dot-com era stock market collapse. But there are still plenty of true believers. And as the dust settles, investors and regulators find themselves still grappling with questions first raised when Bitcoin broke into public consciousness five years ago. (BTC)

Coinbase Inc., one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said 10 hedge funds and family offices have begun using the custody service it debuted last week that seeks to safeguard digital tokens in a manner similar to traditional securities.

Here are key passages from the book excerpt purportedly written by Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown person or people who created Bitcoin. Bloomberg News has been unable to independently verify its authenticity, though the amount of detail in it is unusual. Text is taken verbatim without correcting for syntax or grammar. (BTC)

Bitcoin's meteoric rise last year had many observers calling it one of the biggest speculative manias in history. The cryptocurrency's 2018 crash may help cement its place in the bubble record books. (BTC)